Motivational Quotes

Action

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Action

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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The only way to start is to start.

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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No one will do it for you.